However, Filo and Yang insist they mainly selected the name because they liked the slang definition of a "yahoo" (used by college students in David Filo's native Louisiana in the late 1980s and early 1990s to refer to an unsophisticated, rural Southerner): "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." This meaning derives from the Yahoo race of fictional beings from Gulliver's Travels. Like many search engines and web directories, Yahoo added a web portal.

Yahoo formally rejected the bid, claiming that it "substantially undervalues" the company and was not in the interest of its shareholders.

Three years later, Yahoo had a market capitalization of .24 billion.

The term "hierarchical" described how the Yahoo database was arranged in layers of subcategories.

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All Paid users can message and post and they also have added benefits.

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